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The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune
R. S. Fitton
Manufacturer: Manchester Univ Pr
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ASIN: 0719027837 |
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Matt Kenseth has had a hugely successful career as one of NASCAR's "young guns." He has a reputation as a good, clean-cut guy who not only lives his life that way, but races that way. Follow Matt from his early racing days in Cambridge, WI to his rise in the Winston Cup Series as 2000's Rookie of the Year to 2002's winningest driver.
Customer Reviews:
Has it's place, but not what I'm looking for........2005-12-05
This book was written by Matt's sister and reads like a family scrapbook, including an extensive amount of photos. There's certainly an audience for something like this - I would recommend it primarily to middle school aged Kenseth fans. Our 21-month-old daughter also appreciates it, as she is at the age where she likes to turn the pages and look at the pictures - and she recognizes the #17 DeWalt Ford Taurus with exuberant cries of, "Matt! Matt! Matt!" It's a good-feel book about, by all public appearance, a good-feel individual. If you're looking for any detailed insight into Matt's life and/or driving career, this is not the book for you. I welcome the day that a thorough Kenseth biography is released.
All dedicated Nascar fans will want to read.......2004-04-04
Officially licensed by Nascar, Matt Kenseth: Above And Beyond is an exciting and highly recommended profile biography of the 2003 Nascar Winston Cup champion and Cambridge, Wisconsin native Matt Kenseth. Full-color illustrations throughout enhance this enthralling presentation of Kenseth's competitive and racing-oriented life, with a text that is briskly narrated in and upbeat and "reader-engaging" manner. All dedicated Nascar fans will want to read Matt Kenseth: Above And Beyond!
EXCELLENT!.......2004-02-22
This is a MUST READ for any Nascar fan. It is very well written and really shows Matt's roots as a driver and his background. The pictures are excellent. It is a nice gift for any Nascar fan.
A must have book.......2004-02-22
This is a very well written book by Matt's sister. It gives you a great insight into how Matt became the champion he is today. Lots of really great pictures. I love to show this book off to all my racing friends.
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1939 The Year in Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography
Tom Flannery
Manufacturer: Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0899504663 |
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Lyrics by Fred Ebb, music by John Kander. For voice and piano. Format: piano/vocal songbook. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment and lyrics. Broadway music at it's best. Songs from "Chicago", "New York", "Zorba", "Funny Lady", "Cabaret", "Woman Of The Year" and others.
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Excellent collection of songs from musicals.......2001-07-17
This wonderful sheet music collection includes songs from Kander & Ebb musicals.
Included are, for example:
And All That Jazz - Chicago
Arthur - The Act
But The World Goes 'Round - Cabaret
Cabaret - Cabaret
I Don't Remember You - The Happy Time
Money, Money - Cabaret
New York, New York - New York, New York
And many other favorites, 30 in all.
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- Frivolity on the Farm
- It's the only book my kids want to read now!!
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Farmer Brown Goes Round and Round
Teri Sloat
Manufacturer: DK CHILDREN
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ASIN: 0789425122 |
Book Description
As Farmer Brown surveys his near-perfect farm, the air is filled with sounds: a purring cat, a snoring hound, a bossy little rooster who crows cock-a-doodle-doodle-doo. But suddenly... lightning flashed, the air was humming. "Look out!" he cried, "a twister's coming!" Before he knows it, "clouds of sheep whirled through the air,k the clothesline chased the goat and mare until each one had on a pair of Farmer Brown's plain underwear!" But this is only the beginning. For when the wind stops and drops everyone back to earth, the farmer's cows oink, his pigs moo, his sheep cluck, the cat coos, and worst of all, when Farmer Brown tries to shout -- only cock-a-doodle-doodle-doo comes out! How Farmer Brown and his animals get their voices back will have young readers laughing out loud, eager to chime in on the mixed-up animal sounds and rollicking refrains. An irresistible read-aloud with funny hijinks from start to finish!
Customer Reviews:
Frivolity on the Farm.......2001-08-17
Teri Sloat is the author of several books including: The Thing That Bothered Farmer Brown, and she lives near a farm. Nadine Bernard Westcott is also no stranger to farms and animal sounds.
All the animals are just comical. The cat is also quite cute. At the beginning, all the animals are making their normal animally sounds. The pigs are oinking, the cows moo.
But then he heard a rumbling sound That made his smile turn upside down. ...."Look out!" he cried. "A twister's coming!"
The following pages will bring giggles as all the animals get caught up in the clothes line and the expressions on the sheep's faces.....you just have to see it!
When the twister drops them all, the sheep are clucking and the cows are oinking. More silliness continues as the sheep take over the roost and the muddy, oinking cows get slopped.
The rooster takes over the farmer's job and tells everyone what to do. Fortunately another twister hits and sets things right again.
"Except on days when strong winds blew...."
A purely silly delight!
It's the only book my kids want to read now!!.......1999-10-21
My kids and I both love the whimsical nature of both Farmer Brown books by Teri Sloat. The wording and pictures go perfectly together and are good for a laugh and putting us all in a fun and silly mood. I hope there are more Farmer Brown adventures to come!
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- lots of fun and even a little education
- Great kids book
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Chauncey Cheese Goes Round the World
Vincent Maggio
Manufacturer: BookSurge Publishing
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ASIN: 1419609874
Release Date: 2007-09-14 |
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Chauncey Cheese goes Round the World is a wild and magical adventure filled with fun friends and fantasy. A little boy's imagination transforms a lonely, rainy, friendless day into a wild magic carpet ride around the world, making newfound friends along the way.
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lots of fun and even a little education.......2007-09-02
Great book !!
Very imaginative story and wonderful illustrations. It even gives a little geography lesson as the characters travel the world.
I would highly recommend it for kids from PK to the early reader ages.
Great kids book.......2007-08-27
This is a great book for children. I have two children, five and ten and they both loved it. Great story and illusttrations.
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Childhood Education, published by Association for Childhood Education International on June 22, 1995. The length of the article is 1721 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Parents can help develop their children's language skills by initiating conversation about the weather and the different seasons. Such topics are within young children's experience and they can discuss their thoughts about the weather and the different seasons easily. Children can watch or listen to weather reports with their parents and ask questions afterwards. They can also read news about the weather with their parents.
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Title: "It's winter at my house and spring at your house - and that's the way the world goes 'round!" (teaching children about the weather and the different seasons)
Author: Rita Newman
Publication:
Childhood Education (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1995
Publisher: Association for Childhood Education International
Volume: v71
Issue: n4
Page: p235(2)
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And the World Goes 'Round
Manufacturer: Warner Bros Pubns
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ASIN: 076921844X |
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To solve these, puzzlers really have to get their minds in gear and know their culture, colloquial phrases, and other tricky language facts. From “Film director Clair” and “Trumpeter Al” to “Ogled” and “Bootlegger’s nemesis,” the clues offer a fun challenge. Some of the puzzle themes include Alliteration, Music Man, Southwest, and Compute.
Answers: René, Hirt, Eyed, Ness
Customer Reviews:
Read it and keping as a reference book........2005-02-07
If you really care about your self-development, read it.
Great Complement to Getting to Yes.......2001-05-22
Getting Together builds on the foundation of Getting to Yes by outlining a framework to build relationships while negotiating. This is a must read for all business people and a good addition to Getting to Yes. It does not read as smoothly as Getting to Yes, but the information is equally valuable.
The Weakest of the Series.......2001-03-07
The folks at the Harvard Negotiation Project have produced a lot of books. I have found this volume the least satisfying of their works.
Perhaps this is because _Getting to Yes_ and _Getting Past No_ are so amazingly good that the level of analysis simply wasn't sustainable for a third book. Or perhaps it's I personally tend to think by analogy and had already started applying the concepts in the first two books to non-business settings. In any event, I found the concepts obvious and the discussions banal.
The quality of the later books seems to return to the same high level as GTY and GPN. For example, _Difficult Conversations_, though not strictly a book "about negotiation," is very fine, although not as easy a read as the other two.
Bottom line? Useful if you haven't figured out on your own how to apply the concepts of principled negotiation to your personal life. Otherwise, skip it.
This is a great book!.......2000-01-03
This book helps people understand each other, and build relationships based on trust. I work in open adoption. To me, this book is taylor made for those relationships.
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A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances.
In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo's borders, bringing with them stories of torture, rape, and massacre. One year later, Paula Huntley's husband signed on with the American Bar Association to help build a modern legal system in this broken country, and she reluctantly agreed to accompany him. Deeply uncertain as to how she might be of any service in a country that had seen such violence and hatred, Huntley found a position teaching English as a Second Language to a group of Kosovo Albanians in Prishtina.
A war story, a teacher's story, but most of all a story of hope, The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo is the journal Hunt-ley kept in scattered notebooks or on her laptop over the eight months that she lived and worked in Kosovo. When Huntley asked her students if they would like to form an American-style "book club," they jumped at the idea. After stumbling upon a stray English-language copy of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Huntley proposed it as the club's first selection. The simple fable touched all the students deeply, and the club rapidly became a forum in which they could discuss both the terrors of their past and their dreams for the future.
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo is a compelling tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.
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I wanted more.......2006-08-01
First let me say that I have the utmost respect for Paula Huntley and her husband, for what they did, and for the lives they touched. Her writing was just enough to show the day to day lives of these people who have gone through so much. I wish more people would take a more active role in the world around them. It would be a better world if they did.
However, the more I read the book the more frustrated I got. The book was a collection of horrific stories. People need to know that this happened. But much was missing. While she provided us with a picture of the crumbling war torn town, she did little to give us any historical background. What was the culture like, who were the famous artists, statesmen, writers? What was Kosovo (and the entire region for that matter) like before the war, befor Tito. What were the politics that lead to decisions years ago which fired up the conflict? And where on earth was a good map of the region? I realize that I was probably asking for too much. But the blurb by Jason Elliot raised my expectations. It is good, esp if you know nothing about the region. But I really did want more.
Both more and less than itýs cracked up to be.......2004-03-25
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo is a wonderful tale of the virtues and rewards of volunteering to help those in countries less fortunate (at least for the present) than the US; at the same time, it's not exactly great literature or great writing. However, that's not what it's advertised to be, and it's not the aspiration of the author to compete with the writers of great literature. For how it came to be (a collection of emails to friends and family during the 8 months the author spent teaching English in Kosovo), this book more than meets its goal.
Paula Huntley went to Kosovo with her husband, who volunteered for an ABA project to help set up a new legal system for the new war-torn country. She took a crash course in teaching English as a second language and, once in Prishtina, Kossovo, quickly found a job teaching the language to a classroom of eager and charming Albanian students.
The book begins as Huntley's story but quickly evolves into being the story of the country and its inhabitants, specifically those who were blessed to be her students. Like volunteers everywhere, Huntley quickly learned that she was gaining and receiving far more than she was giving, in terms of compassion, understanding, insight, and personal growth.
It's not `literature,' but it's sure a terrific little book. Don't miss it. I learned a whole, whole lot about a part of the world about which I have very little knowledge.
Couldn't put this down..........2004-02-12
I learnt a lot from and was infinitely moved by Paula Huntley's journal of the eight months she and he husband spent working in post-war Kosova. Understated, beautiful writing and none of the straining for effect that mars so many memoirs. She was clearly writing straight from the heart. I rarely do this but as soon as I finished the book, I found her website and donated something to the scolarship fund for young Albanian Kosovars. A fascinating and inspiring story of some very resilient people.
In response to "New York's" and "peace loving person".......2003-08-22
With the review you have given to Paula's book - that is considered an angel for me - you made me laugh despite the sad
reality of what you non-sense'd about.
"Hemingway book club of Kosova" a racist book??? No way, in contrary you were recommending a racist book that protects what
Serbs have done to Kosova, Croatia and Bosnia.
Goodness me, I can not understand people who make (war) crimes
and yet find reasons to justify their ugly deeds. Shame to all of them who do that.
Hemingway Book Club of Kosova, is the best book written about KOSOVA so far, that's in my opinion and if since I can make recommendation in here - I'd like to recommend Philip J. Cohen's
book "Serbia's Secret War" - that has some similiarities with
Hemingway book Club of Kosova.
Hemingway book Club of Kosova talks about LOVE between Kosovars
and Americans while the "Serbia's Secret War" talks about the
Serbian cooperations with Nazi's throughout the 2-nd world war. And by the way, I am asking you since "I have forgotten"
Who was the person who started the First World War, and those in Slovenia, and Croatia, and Bosnia and Kosova at last.
With all due respect to you "peace loving person" - You have no room to protect the Serbs who have done more then horrible crimes
in not less than 4 countries.
Now who's the racist here, Mrs Huntley or the Serbs she talked about (even though she didn't generalize them all).
God Bless Mrs Huntley and her husband, God Bless U.S.A and all
Peace loving people throughout the world - excluding the fake ones.
An Inspirational Story Of Cross-Cultural Connections........2003-08-06
Paula Huntley left her home in California, and traveled with her husband, Ed, to Kosovo in 2000, one year after the NATO bombing of that province. Ed Huntley desperately wanted to do something to help in the war-torn Balkans. So he volunteered for an American Bar Association project to help rebuild Kosovo's legal system. Paula trained to teach English as a second language, (TESL), while she was still in the States. "The Hemingway Book Club Of Kosovo" is her memoir of that period, taken from the journal she kept during the eight months they lived and worked in Prishtina. Ms. Huntley movingly writes of her experience, and of the intimate bond she forged with her students.
The Huntleys arrived in Prishtina and found that the city had not been totally destroyed. Since the Serbs needed Prishtina, the capital city, they had left most of the buildings intact. However, as in most of Kosovo, there had been massive looting, vandalism and violence, murders were committed on a large scale, as was ethnic cleansing of the Kosovo Albanians. Huntley writes, "Most of the destruction in Prishtina was below the surface - in the hearts and minds of the residents. I saw this every day, and I never got used to that destruction."
Her students, and every native Albanian, had lost ten years of their lives under the brutal oppression, and apartheid imposed by the Kosovo Serbs. Learning English, in many ways, was key to the economic advancement of the students and their families. Ms. Huntley was deeply touched by the students' eagerness to learn not just English, and grammatical structure, but about the American culture and work ethic. She wanted to provide a safe forum for them to discuss their feelings, and the traumas of the past decade. A book club was established, that met at the Huntley home. The selection was Ernest Hemmingway's "The Old Man And The Sea." The club took-off and became so much more. And the book became a vehicle through which the young people could discuss their lives. Hemmingway's book was fairly easy for them to read, but the novel's meaning was far deeper than the relatively simple language. The students identified with the fable of the triumph of hope and courage over adversity.
The harrowing stories of the young Albanians, and their courage, and determination, are remarkable, and inspirational. Paula Huntley's memoir is an extraordinary tale of cross-cultural human connections, and bonds forged through literature and loving kindness. Highly recommended!
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This digital document is an article from The Hemingway Review, published by Ernest Hemingway Foundation on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1343 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo.(Book Review)
Author: Lisa Tyler
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The Hemingway Review (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: Ernest Hemingway Foundation
Volume: 23
Issue: 1
Page: 120(4)
Article Type: Book Review
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Study of a little-known Civil War Campaign.......2002-05-10
The Red River Campaign isn't one of those parts of the Civil War that the public knows much about. In 1864, when the south was losing, and the only question was whether they could string things out long enough to get a more favorable president in the White House, the Union embarked, at Lincoln's insistence, on a wild goose chase up the Red River in Louisiana. The objectives were several fold: conquering Louisiana and Texas would discourage the French, who were in the process of establishing a new world monarchy in Mexico; this part of the region was overflowing with cotton that couldn't be sold, and many Union soldiers and especially sailors (who could legally claim prize money from its sale) were eager to seize it and get some profits if they could; conquest of this region would strengthen the Union's hold on the state, and increase the number of voters participating in the elections of officials that Lincoln was trying to get Congress to accept as the new representatives of the State of Louisiana. With such diverse objectives, it's no wonder the campaign was a failure.
But there were other reasons for the failure. The Union plan was only vaguely mapped out before they left Union territory (basically where the Red flows into the Mississippi), with the Union army and navy proceeding up the river to Shreveport, and capturing and holding that city, with even more vague intentions of proceeding to Texas after. The fleet was commanded by David Dixon Porter, a skilled but somewhat responsibility-shy admiral with no love for the army in this operation. His army counterpart, as much as there was one, was Nathaniel P. Banks, a Massachusetts politician turned soldier who had managed to goof up several campaigns previously, and was one of those political generals (Benjamin Butler was another) who seemed able to get the least out of the professional soldiers under his command. Banks was the local department commander, but apparently no one thought to appoint someone to actually command the troops in the coming campaign, so Banks had to go along and exercise authority over the various troops.
His opponent was Richard Taylor, the son of President Zachary Taylor, and the son-in-law of President (of the Confederacy) Jefferson Davis. Taylor too was an amateur leading an army of professionals. Strangely, in this campaign the Confederates had all the foreign soldiers serving in their army, with a French prince (Polignac) serving as first a brigade and then a division commander, and a Prussian cavalryman leading a regiment of Texans of German extraction thoughout the campaign. Naturally, as a result, the campaign has some colorful characters. It also has the interesting aspect of being enough of a backwater that the soldiers who were driven from prominent positions in the war on the other side of the Mississippi wound up here, where it was hoped their incompetence wouldn't hurt too much if it continued. Charles P. Stone, the man blamed (almost certainly wrongly, for political reasons) for the Union debacle at Ball's Bluff early in the war, was Banks' chief of staff. William B. Franklin, a mediocre corps commander under McClellan in the Army of the Potomac, was fired after Fredericksburg because Ambrose Burnside accused him (with some reason) of failure to obey orders, leading to the failure of his attack. Theophilus Holmes, who proved uncertain in command during the Seven Days Campaign in 1862, was in command of troops at the beginning of the Red River campaign, and was finally removed when he refused to fight once too often for the Confederate authorities.
Author Brooksher (whose previous book, Bloody Hill, about Wilson's Creek, I didn't read) does a competent job of combining the strategy, tactics, personalities, and oral histories of the participants into one volume, which isn't overlong. He didn't have maps prepared for this book, instead choosing to use maps from other books: this works somewhat, but not perfectly by any means. They aren't, as one of the other reviewers noted, the best maps anyway. But maps aside, the author does a very good job of recreating the nature of the campaign, and shows little bias (which you could expect to be pro-Confederate, the author being from Arkansas) towards either side. He makes it clear that the Union army won all but one of the battles, and if they'd been competently led he thinks they would have won the campaign. He also thinks that their victory would have had little affect on the course of the war, just as their defeat didn't prolong the life of the Confederacy much at all. And he shows considerable skill with the thumbnail sketches of the various characters in the campaign. All in all a solid book.
A very good overview of the campaign but..........1999-01-22
The book really adds nothing to what was already written in Ludwell Johnson's book from the 60's. It is well written but I was looking for more. Though admittedly the author did not intend for it to a detailed battle study, the book's battle descriptions are too general for the demanding student of the campaign. The maps are very disappointing,with the exception of the Savas map.The other battle maps are just copies of Ludwell Johnson's dull, spartan drawings that include no information other than troop positions. No terrain or battlefield features are illustrated. Also, many locations mentioned in the text are not on the maps provided, not exactly an uncommon occurrence in civil war books. Don't get me wrong, the book is a good overview but students of the Red River Camp.will want more than just a rehash of what has already been written. It is worth reading as there is little out there on this important campaign but if you have already read Johnson than it is probably not worth the time.
A major contribution to understanding the war in the west.......1998-09-29
Bill Brooksher follows up his studies in Civil War leadership, Boldly They Rode and Bloody Hill, the Battle of Wilson's Creek, with a masterful account of the Federal attempt to take Shreveport and ultimately Texas through the Red River Valley. This tale of war, cotton and politics adds a new dimension to understanding the war in the west. Written in the easy style that is typical of the author.
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From the end of the New Deal until quite recently, the U.S. House of Representatives was dominated by a conservative coalition that thwarted the Democratic majority and prevented the enactment of measures proposed by a succession of liberal Presidents. Today Presidents aren't necessarily liberal and the House of Representatives is not necessarily the graveyard of presidential proposals. What happened? Congress evolved. It all began with airconditioning. In this entertaining tale of one of our most august institutions, Nelson Polsby describes how the Democratic majority finally succeeded in overcoming the conservative coalition, changing the House. The evolution required among other things, the disappearance of Dixiecrats from the House Democratic caucus. Dixiecrats were replaced by the rise of the Republican party in the south. The Republican party in southern states was strengthened by an influx of migrants from the north, who came south to settle after the introduction of residential air conditioning, which made the climate more tolerable to Northerners. This evolutionary process led to the House's liberalization and concluded with the House's later transformation into an arena of sharp partisanship, visible among both Democrats and Republicans. A fascinating read by one of our most influential political scientists, How Congress Evolves breathes new life into the dusty corners of institutional history, and offers a unique explanation for important transformations in the congressional environment.
Customer Reviews:
Helpful.......2007-01-12
Interesting to know how Congress has evolved. The book is more than just about Congress though, for Congress is a body somewhat representative of the people. So Polsby offers some interesting explanations for why the South became a Republican stronghold. Also, the various changes in leadership control is interesting and important for understanding changing dynamics in America's political system. Lots of helpful footnotes, bordering on obsenely excessive. The case studies into various personalities is really interesting: Wilbur Mills was a nut!
Elegant Description of aTransformation in American Politics.......2004-04-17
This book provides an elegant description of one of the most important transformations of American politics: the end of the Dixiecrats and the transformation of the Solid South from the Democrats to the Republicans. He importantly connects this with the rise of the power of the caucus and leadership. It also has implications for the crisis of partisanship in Congress.
The book basically concerns several interwoven phenomena, the House Democratic Caucus exerting political control on its conservative southern members and the rise of the Republican South. Polsby demonstrates how demographic and sociological phenomena weakened the grip of the South on Democratic Party machinery, pulling the Democratic Party to the left. This increased the pressure on Dixiecrats to switch parties, once it became acceptable to be a Southern Democrat.
Polsby also discusses the rise of contemporary partisanship. As the Caucus got the power to discipline its chairman, it demanded an end to bipartisanship. This weakened Republican moderates who called for cooperation and working with the Democrats. This led to the rise in power of Newt Gingrich (an Amazon reviewer!) who advocated a different strategy that eventually led to the 1994 election.
Excellent book, and excellent insights. In several ways, this book will help me do my job better as a staffer in the House of Representatives.
REVIEW.......2004-02-27
From the Publisher: "Nelson Polsby has been studying, reading about and hanging around the U.S. House of Representatives for more than 40 years. In "How Congress Evolves", he provides the definitive--and often witty-account of how the House has changed over time, and why." Michael Barone, coauthor, "The Almanac of American Politics"
Polsby at his best.......2004-02-26
"How Congress Evolves" is elegantly written, cogently argued, and politically astute. Nelson Polsby gives his readers the benefit of four decades and more of immersion in and observation of Congress, along with his penetrating insights into politics, people, and institutions, and a writing style that is at once accessible and sophisticated. Novices and experts, students and practitioners, scholars and journalists, all will learn immensely about how the House of Representatives works and how it changes."--Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute
REVIEW.......2004-02-26
From the Publisher:
"How Congress Evolves" is Nelson Polsby's magnum opus. Polsby is an institution among congressional scholars and this book will be a classic work on Congress along with the writings of Woodrow Wilson and Richard Fenno. Polsby's wonderful observations from his interviews and deft use of data about stability and change in Congress combined with his humor make the book hard to put down once you start reading it. --James A. Thurber, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University
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- breath-taking pictures, and amazing writings
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Vanishing Eden: The Plight of the Tropical Rain Forest
William Reilly
Manufacturer: Barrons Educational Series Inc
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ASIN: 0812062469 |
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breath-taking pictures, and amazing writings.......1998-08-24
A great book. A-z on the rainforest, animals, plants, tribes, distruction, and much more,
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